We’ve been told a lie. The poobahs said if we added fluoride to our water it would strengthen our teeth and bones. And we believed them. Even encouraged them to fluoridate our water.
But they lied. The fluoride added to our water is a waste product of aluminum and phosphate fertilizer processing. And it’s not even calcium fluoride that appears naturally in water, but sodium fluoride, which is a whole different thing–and loaded with bad news.
In fact, sodium fluoride has no good news. Except for a few suspect reports by the people selling the stuff, study after research study proves that sodium fluoride does not protect our teeth, and it does a number on our bones. And on other body parts, too, including our thyroid gland.
Unfortunately for us, fluoride does its work in secret. Oh, we have health issues. Maybe even a lot of issues, but we never connect them to fluoride.
So let’s connect a few dots here.
Your thyroid gland produces the hormone that controls your metabolism. Thyroid hormone gets its power and glory from its iodine content.
Enter fluoride. Fluoride and iodine look a lot alike chemically, but fluoride’s a bully while iodine, unfortunately, gives up too easily. So fluoride knocks iodine out of your thyroid hormone and takes over.
Big problem. Iodine is what makes the thyroid wheels go round. Fluoride may look like iodine, but it can’t do iodine’s job. You have plenty of thyroid hormone, but since it can’t get the job done, you’re hypothyroid.
But blood tests, which are not sophisticated enough to distinguish between useless fluoride and the potent iodine you had before fluoride showed up, will say you don’t have a problem. To the tests, thyroid hormone is thyroid hormone, whether it works or not.
You’ll hear the doctor’s famous phrase, “You’re fine.” And you’ll know that’s not true, but you probably won’t know what to do about it.
Well, one thing you should do for sure is get rid of ALL the fluoride in your life.
Not convinced yet? Well, then let me tell you even more reasons to ditch fluoride.
- Fluoride also attacks your pineal (PIN ee uhl) gland. Deep in your brain, called your third eye by seers, the pineal controls your inner clock, provides good sleep, works with your adrenal glands to handle stress, keeps the thymus gland fed and cared for, and communicates 24/7 with the rest of the endocrine system about how things are going. Fluoride calcifies your pineal gland into a non-functioning rock.
- Like the rest of the body, our bones constantly renew themselves, adding new bone cells and removing dying cells. Fluoride interferes with the ‘adding new bone cells’ part.
- Sodium fluoride contains heavy metals, including aluminum, which throw a monkey wrench into most of what our body needs to do. Adding to the mess, if aluminum can find some magnesium–one of the really good guys–it latches onto it and heads for your brain.
- The American Dental Association finally came out with an advisory telling parents not to give their babies fluoridated water–because it can cause brain damage. But they still back fluoride.
- The government classifies sodium fluoride as environmentally hazardous waste. Anybody handling it must wear HazMat protective gear. Dumping it into rivers is a crime.
Why then is it okay to put it in the water we drink, bathe in and swim in?
- Fluoridated toothpaste requires a warning to alert parents to call poison control if a child eats a pea-sized glob of the stuff. Which contains the same amount of fluoride as one glass of water.
- Fluoride worsens many health situations, including autism.
Most of Europe enacted laws to stop the use of fluoride in the water–and report great benefits from doing so. It looks like Canada is following along.
Only eight countries in the world now fluoridate more than 50% of its water. Unfortunately, the United States is one of them–and the politics run deep.
We’re on our own.
Reverse osmosis (RO) systems remove fluoride–and a whole lot of other bad things in our water.
Get RO-processed water (stores are popping up all over the place) or get a RO system, but don’t drink fluoridated water.
Why would you want to do harm to your wonderful self?
A drunk driver damaged Bette Dowdell's pituitary gland shortly before her first birthday. Although doctors insisted for years that she was fine, her health drifted to a crash-and-burn event, and she realized her health was up to her.
Now she's happy to report she has energy all day, every day. She sleeps well. Colds, flu and headaches are all in the past. Optimism moved back in. Life is good.
Now Bette's sharing what she knows with others to help them take control of their health, too. People who become their own health advocate enjoy far better health than those that don't.
Bette grew up in The Salvation Army, where her parents were officers. Like the military, this Army life involved a lot of moving, and she attended ten schools, in nine cities, in three states before graduating from high school.
After college, Bette worked as an IBM Systems engineer, a small-company consultant and software company owner. She wrote the books How to be a Christian Without Being Annoying, On We March: A memoir of growing up in The Salvation Army and the e-book Pep For The Pooped: Discovering the Vitamins and Minerals Your Body Is Starving For.
She lives in the Phoenix area.
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Anonymous says
January 6, 2011 at 8:32 pmIs there a way to reverse the damage done over time from drinking fluoridated water? As someone born in 1960, I’m sure that I drank fluoridated water for the first half of my life.
Edward Spengler says
January 6, 2011 at 8:47 pmThe thing is, this fluoride issue has been common knowledge for more than 20 years. Someone has had their head where the sun don’t shine, and probably is proud of it too.
Anonymous says
January 6, 2011 at 8:13 pmThank heaven I drink well water, and my kids grew up on it.
nyscof1 says
January 6, 2011 at 9:52 pmThose Darn Poobahs. But seriously folks. We all have to contact all our legislators from local to federal levels. Tell them we don’t want them putting fluoride into our bodies via the water supply.
It’s not good enough to filter fluoride from your tap water as you inhale fluoride in showers and absorb it in baths. Further, most of our food and beverage supply is fluoride tainted because they are made, reconstituted and/or processed in fluoridated areas.
But if we all demanded the water in our communities be fluoride-free, then no fluoridated water could enter the food chain and the health you are saving could just be your own
for more inf http://www.fluorideAction.Net
Anonymous says
January 7, 2011 at 3:54 amI have talked to people in the health profession about floride and it’s horrifying effects it is doing to human beings, animals, fishes of all kinds, and I get that glazed look from most of them! Grrrrrrrr………………
Anonymous says
January 7, 2011 at 9:03 amWHAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IS WHAT LEGAL RIGHT DO THEY HAVE TO MEDICATE THE WATER SUPPLY EVEN IF IT WASN’T DANGEROUS AND WE ALL KNOW FLUORIDE IS USED AS RAT POISON!!!
WHY HAS NO ONE TAKEN THEM TO COURT AND DEMANDED THEY STOP POISONING/MEDICATING THE WATER SUPPLY!?!?!?
WHY DON’T SOME OF US RATS GET TOGETHER, GET A LAWYER WITH SOME GUTS, WHO ISN’T AFRAID, AND WANTS TO MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF TO FILE A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT!!!!
Anonymous says
January 7, 2011 at 8:54 pmThis issue makes me so angry because I’m already a thyroid patient. It’s bad enough to go through hoops to get the proper medication, and now they are going to begin adding fluoride to San Diego water. Don’t these idiots know that fluoride was once used to lower thyroid in hyperthyroid patients, and as the article points out, is banned in parts of the world.
betted says
January 10, 2011 at 10:02 pmThere are things we can do to overcome previous fluoride consumption. No science on whether its a complete undo or just a help, but I’ll take what I can get. The body is an amazing self-healing machine, which cheers me on. Getting vitamins and minerals helps. Sleeping in complete darkness helps a struggling pineal gland produce melatonin, the main thing fluoride hits. Before spending a lot of money on retrofitting your bedroom, try a sleep mask. Since I write about this stuff, I tried one just to write about it, but the difference is amazing.
San Diego fluoridates their water because the state of California has a law that says they have to. But they have an active fluoride action group, so you might want to get involved, if only by check.
Anonymous says
January 28, 2011 at 1:32 pmI quit drinking tap water about 14 years ago, not because of Fluoride, but because of litheum in the tap water.
The City of Long Beach changed the source of their water and I started to get red on my face, neck and other parts of my body. I went to nine different doctors and they all came up with different diagnosises. I did extensive research on the internet and came accross an article entitled “She drank the “holy water and came down with phyrasis”.
To make a long story short. I quit drink tap water and my syptoms completely went away. I toke the research to one of my doctors and he said that it wasn’t proven. Even though the article came from the Lancet medical journal.
Which I thought was the doctors bible.
It was the Litheim the was causing me and many others the problem and probably the Fluoride.
I am 67 and my memory has improved, it is better then it was when I was 30 years old. In addition, when I was much younger I suffered from back and joint pain. But now do not have any pain for the last 15 years and do not take any drugs.
I have another story about my 96 year old mother, but I won’t get into that one now, on how Floridated water gave her alzihimers and Ostoprosis by drinking green tea.
betted says
February 1, 2011 at 4:49 pmSmart man to take things into your own hands so you can fix them. The State of California has a law requiring water systems to add fluoride. San Diego voted to get rid of it, but couldn’t.
Tea naturally contains fluoride. It’s not the toxic waste form of fluoride that’s put in our water, but it’s still not a good thing.